greenbone/openvas-scanner

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4796 stars · 796 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

OpenVAS Scanner is the scan engine of the Greenbone Community Edition, executing a continuously updated feed of vulnerability tests against network targets. It is part of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management stack and is being progressively rewritten in Rust.

Use cases

• scan my network for known vulnerabilities
• set up an open source vulnerability scanner
• run periodic vulnerability assessments on servers
• build a self-hosted vulnerability management system
• detect outdated software versions across my infrastructure
• integrate a scan engine into Greenbone/GVM

When to choose

• you want a full-featured, open source vulnerability scanner with a continuously updated test feed
• you are deploying the Greenbone Community Edition or GVM stack
• you need self-hosted scanning via containers or source builds

When to avoid

• you need a simple one-shot vulnerability check without managing a scanner stack
• you want a cloud-managed scanning service with no infrastructure
• you are not prepared to run a Linux-based scanner component as part of a larger system

Facets

service · maturity active

vulnerability-scanning security security infrastructure-as-code self-hosted rust c openvas greenbone vulnerability-management scan-engine gvm nasl devops linux docker

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